MerMay The Third

[leecetheartist]

Title: Bubbles!
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: n/a
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Content Notes:

 

This Merperson likes playing with bubbles! Just a quick drawing as I've had a busy day. You might like to colour it, I'd be interested to see how you get on.
 

The ink is Parker's Quink. It's a decades old bottle, with just a black coloured label, no name except Parker Quink, but it's nice to use on occasion - with so many tempting other fancy inks around I don't often.

 

I'm still using the Kakimori steel nib dipper.

 

Comments

[mific]

I just saw how you're incorporating the mer tail in the name, below. Cute!

[leecetheartist]

If I'd been really clever I would have done it from the start :-)

[mekare]

I really like the variation in line thickness you‘ve got with the nib pen. I‘ve never used one, how do you control it? Is it just about taking more or less ink when you dip it into the bottle?

[zavodilaterrarium]

I've used a nib pen a little, and besides the ink amount, angle or even pressure can change the line thickness quite a lot (like a pencil), depending on the type of nib!

[leecetheartist]

The nib is really, really strange, this new invention from Kakimori. It's like a cone - hollow with grooves. You dip, wipe and it's got stacks, these drawings in 3 or 4 dips or less.

Really unlike a standard dipper. Altering the angle changes the line radically, it becomes more brush like.